London: Readers Union, 1946. Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan. Pp. 260(last blank), 4 plates, full page maps and plans, index; post 8vo; tan cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, with publisher's device at foot in pale blue, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly browned; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Readers Union, London, 1946. Book Club edition. *Originally published by Faber and Faber in 1943. In 1628, the Portuguese Augustinian friar, Sebastiao Manrique, was sent to Bengal, where the Portuguese had a settlement. 'Bengal is adjacent to Arakan, a country which is now part of Burma, but then was an independent kingdom inhabited by a Mongolian race closely resembling the Burmese. To this kingdom Manrique was obliged to go the following year' [Introduction].

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Seller: Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller (AU)
Seller's Inventory #: 160692
Title: THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE
Author: Collis, Maurice
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Readers Union
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1946

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Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Device: Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...